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USC

Group member: Philip, Gino, Yvonne, Phoena. USC . Background Information. California's oldest private research university Established: in 1880 Type: private and non-profit Location: Los Angeles Size: 900,000 m^2 Subject: 95 undergraduate majors 147 academic and professional minors .

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USC

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  1. Group member: Philip, Gino, Yvonne, Phoena USC

  2. Background Information • California's oldest private research university • Established: in 1880 • Type: private and non-profit • Location: Los Angeles • Size: 900,000 m^2 • Subject: • 95 undergraduate majors • 147 academic and professional minors

  3. Background Information • Two primary campus • University Park campus • Health Sciences campus • President: • C. L. Max Nikias • Since 2010 • Staff: • Academic Staff: 4735 • Admin. Staff: 10,774 • Student: • Postgarduates: 19,516 • Undergraduates: 17,380

  4. History • Los Angeles ,frontier town in the early 1870s • Judge Robert Maclay Widney establishing a university in the region • in 1879 Widney formed a board of trustees • a donation of 308 lots of land from three members of the community • USC first with 53 students and 10 teachers in 1880. • Today, USC has: - more than 33,000 students & nearly 3,200 full-time faculty. located in the heart of one of the biggest metropolises in the world

  5. University Park Campus Galen Center • Home for basketball and volleyball • Opened: October 12, 2006 • Capacity: 10,258

  6. University Park Campus Doheny Library • Located in the center of campus • Opened: 1932 • Built by: Ralph Adams Cram

  7. Health Sciences Campus Medical Center • Located 5 km from downtown Los Angeles and 11 km from the University Park campus • major center for basic and clinical biomedical research in the fields of cancer, gene therapy,the neurosciences, and transplantation biology

  8. Academic Units - famous • USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences • Marshall School of Business • School of Cinematic Arts • Viterbi School of Engineering • Gould School of Law • School of Medicine of USC • School of Policy, Planning, and Development

  9. University Seal

  10. University Seal • Tommy Trojan • major symbol of the university • nickname of USC’s students

  11. University Seal Mascot - Traveler

  12. USC Computer Science

  13. Outline • Department overview • Research projects and labs • Research experience by undergraduates

  14. USC Computer Science • Interdisciplinary • socially assistive robotics • computer animation • natural language processing • computational neuroscience • DNA computing • computational economics Visualizing the Internet – A census of the Internet address space

  15. Department Chair • Shang-Hua Teng • Chair, Computer Science Department Seeley G. Mudd Professor Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California • Affiliated Research Professor of Mathematics at MIT • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University • RESEARCH: smoothed analysis of algorithms, computational economics and game theory, spectral graph theory, scientific computing, mathematical programming, combinatorial optimization, computational geometry and computer graphics.

  16. Achievements A Quick Glance • First program in game development •  the Domain Name System and the TCP/IP protocols • Invention of DNA computing • One of the first computer viruses and led the theoretical study of the computer virus concept • Home of one of the nation’s largest robotics programs • Much-honored faculty includes five members of the National Academy of Engineering and a Turing Award winner, Leonard Adleman

  17. USC CS Awards • ICT Light Stage: used by Hollywood studios to create photoreal digital actors.

  18. Robotics • Can Robots Help Improve the State of U.S. Healthcare? Congress Wanted to Know • socially assistive robotics • helping people recover from stroke • elders suffering from chronic conditions

  19. Research Areas & Labs • Artificial Intelligence, Agents, Natural Language, Vision • Databases and Information Management • Graphics, Games & Multimedia • Robotics, Brain Theory, and Computational Neuroscience • Software Systems and Engineering • Systems, Distributed Systems, Communication Networks • Theory and Computational Sciences

  20. Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) • Found by the National Science Foundation • Support active research by undergraduate students Featured project

  21. REU Summer Program

  22. More readings: http://www.usc.edu/ http://www.cs.usc.edu/ Thanks!

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